stories as we come on. the deadly cold, the staggering death toll number. now at least 26 people dead. hundreds of accidents and tonight the flood fears. with temperatures about to swing wildly. cosmic crash? a possible meteor hurdling through the sky across the florida keys before crashing to earth. the pictures just coming in. the race controversy breaking late involving the virginia governor. a picture on his yearbook page showing one person dressed in black face, already calls for him to resign. the shocking new moment ad dam bursts.

president pulling out of a decades old nuclear agreement. new jersey senator cory booker jumping into the field. the apology senator warren made today. the slip and fall case, prosecutors say things like this are jumping up your premiums. good evening on a very busy friday night. we begin with late breaking development involving virginia's governor. an explosive image from his yearbook page. the page shows one man in black face, another as the member of ku klux klan. the governor admitting one of those men is him. david kerley leads us off.

>> reporter: calls for virginia's governor to because of this photo. one person in black face. one in a ku klux klan robe. it is part of democrat ralph northam's 1984 medical school yearbook page. while the other pictures show northam in a hat and sitting against a corvette, he is not identified in the photo in question. virginia republican leaders say tonight, "racism has no place in virginia," and if northam is in that picture, "he should resign immediately." it comes as northam, who is also a doctor, under fire for his comments in support of a virginia bill that would lift restrictions on late term abortions. >> it's done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus that is non-viable. so in this particular example if a mother is in labor, i can tell you exactly what will happen. the infant would be delivered. the infant would be kept comfortable. the infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother. >> reporter: conservatives

accusing northam of essentially supporting infanticide. >> david kerley joins us tonight. the governor's office telling us the comments we just heard were taken out of context. david, i want to focus on tonight. the governor releasing a very different statement about the black face photo. >> about the photo with the black face and the u k saiduxla k i'm deeply sorre decision to appear in that photo. he said it's clearly racist and offensive. as far as the calls for him to resign he did not say he would. he said it would take time and serious effort to heal. tom? >> david kerley with those developments. the deadly cold blast from the midwest to the northeast and the major learn vicious weather has killed at least 26

people across eight states. on syracuse, new york. more than three feet of snow falling in that area. an out of control suv slamming into a police vehicle on an icy highway. new flood warnings because with the temps about to rise there are growing concerns about ice jams about to melt. here's abc's linsey davis. >> reporter: tonight, armed with snow blowers and shovels, upstate new yorkers are digging out from snowstorms that dumped four inches an hour in spots. >> this is the worst i've seen it. the heaviest snow, the heaviest winds, extreme cold. >> reporter: our whit johnson is north of syracuse. >> reporter: this lake-effect snow has been relentless. take a look at this park. the trees, everything smothered. it's up to my knees as i try to walk here. some parts of new york state got more than three feet. >> reporter: outside chicago,

click roads making for a messy morning commute. >> it was a like a sheet of glass. it looked like it was just wet road, but it wasn't. it was ice. >> reporter: in iowa, watch as an out of control vehicle crashes right into a cedar rapids police suv thursday. two officers injured. after respondingo t earlier accident. back inchicago temperatures below zero for 52 consecutive hours. midwest temperatures now expected to jump as much as 70 degrees in the coming days. that thaw already causing a seven-mile long ice jam on the kankakee river. waters rising several feet above flood stage. that is one of the major concerns tonight. linsey davis joins us from outside of new york city. this weather team is telling us the warm up is unprecedented and will cause big problems. >> tom, because that warm up is happening so fast, one big concern you're looking right at it. melting ice on rivers like this one. the expectation it could cause

more ice jams and further flooding. a higher likelihood we could see water main bursts. >> linsey, thank you. so much going on with the weather all across the country. let's get to rob marciano with the forecast. he's along new york's west side highway. >> good evening, tom. this rapid warm up will close problems. let's look at the numbers on sunday. most importantly it will be above the freezing mark in chicago and indianapolis. 60s in st. louis. 50s along the east coast.ut out flood watch. big storm in the west tonight. 60 plus mile per hour winds and in the mountains for snow. two to five feet at pass level. going to be a difficult drive across the west this weekend. tom? >> we'll stake tracking the

weather. next the loud explosion in cuba blamed on a possible meteorite. it was spotted streaking over the florida keys this afternoon before crashing to ertd. here's victor oquendo. >> reporter: tonight, that startling noise from a possible meteor frightening people across the cuban countryside. residents gathering fragments like these right from their backyards following what sounded like an explosion. cuba's state run newspaper now saying the government is looking into if that trail of white smoke before the blast was from a meteor this afternoon. the national weather service saying they also were receiving reports that a meteor was seen in the sky across the florida keys, before it made impact near the western tip of cuba. in 2013, this meteor exploded above russia injuring more than 1,200 people and damaging more than 4,000 buildings. nasa calling it the biggest meteor to hit earth in more than a century. tom, fortunately so far tonight in cuba no reports of major damage or injuries.

tom? >> victor oquendo for us tonight. thank you. let's turn tos and thsteth union.p geari taking the case to build the border wall to the american people. the president says there is a quote good chance he'll declare a national emergency to fund that wall. also today president trump pulling the u.s. out of a decades old nuclear agreement. here's terry >> we will be looking at a national emergen national emergency. i don't think anything is going to happen. >> reporter: democrats insist they support border security, just not the wall. >> there's not gng to be lloney ith legislation. >> ihink of hers.

>> reporter: trump boasts he's building amounts of the wall. >> we're negotiating very tough prices. >> reporter: that's not true. no new sections of border wall have been built during president trump's presidency. to build the rest the president claims he can use emergency powers to redirect funds. that move would certainly be challenged in court. >> terry moran joins us live from the white house. terry, other big news. the president pulling the u.s. out of a major nuclear weapons deal with russia. >> it's a cold era ballistic missi missile treaty. president obama tried to bring russian back in. critics fear a new arms race with russia and china. >> terry moran out of washington. thank you. next to the new headline about donald trump jr. and the russia investigation.

senate investigators are sound blocked calls from the president's son were not to his father. sources say investigators believe he was talking to two family friends. congressional investigators are trying to learn if candidate trump had advanced knowledge of the russian meeting or if the president was debriefed afterwards. next to the police officer under fire in detroit. that officer accused of posting a racist video of himself mocking a young black woman after she walked home in the subzero cold. here's abc's adrienne bankert. >> priceless. >> reporter: tonight, a detroit officer's under fire for posting this on snapchat. he and his partner appear to mock a woman they stopped for driving with expired registration. >> walk of shame. >> in the cold. >> reporter: officers ordered ariel moore's car towed, despite subzero temperatures.

the police chief says she declined a ride home and began walking when officer gary steele posted to snapchat. >> i'm angry because this was a racially insensitive post. >> reporter: the filter on that reads "celebrating black history month" and "what black girl magic looks like." then one officer says this dismissive phrase. >> bye felicia. >> reporter: when moore saw the video, she was at a loss. >> i'm kind of shocked. i don't really know how to feel right now. i'm still trying to take it in. >> what they put on there, that's racist. >> reporter: that officer is on administrative leave and could not be reached for comment. the second officer is under investigation. >> adrienne, thank you. >> now to empire star jussie smollett breaking his silence. he's assuring fans he is okay after two men beat him, yelled slurs and put a noose around his neck. he said he's working with

authorities and has been 100% factual. police are searching for two persons of interest seen right there. we move on to disturbing headlines involving a catholic church out of texas tonight. nearly 300 priests accused o sexual abuse. the names posted online. allegations dating back to the 1950s. an estimated 7,000 priests across the country have been accused of abuse. now to the 2020 race. senator cory booker announcing his presidential bid joining the democrat field that includes xtoone cchg s ai him on. >> i always say i got my ba in

stanford, but my phd on the streets of newark. >> reporter: booker looking to carve out his place in an already crowded democratic field. >> i'm the only senator who goes home to a low-income, inner city community. the first community that took a change on me. >> reporter: he's the fourth senator to get into the race and the second avenue american to launch his came pan as black history month gets under way. >> oh, what's up, oakland? >> reporter: senator kamala harris kicking off her campaign in oakland to a crowd of 20,000 people. >> kyra phillips joins us from washington. another senator apologizing tonight. >> elizabeth warren apologizing to the cherokee nation to prove her native american ancestry. this is an about face for warren who spent months standing by her

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>> reporr:te an $80 billion are lost to insurance fraud each year. cathy cashwell famously showed up on the price is right, despite claiming three grand a month for a shoulder injury. she pleaded guilty to fraud. that slip and fall will land him in court. goldinsky has been arrested, charged with insurance fraud and theft by deception. he'll face a judge next week. ome back a serial killer's daughter speaking out in an exclusive interview with abc. why she says she still loves her father. the fix to the face time glitch. why apple is thank this arizona te ayst off, and neither will i.

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across this video and had to share it. 50 years after she first said yes, here's the airman who got back down on one knee. >> reporter: for 50 years there was no hiding their life. james and lynn gauthier married in buffalo, new york. at the time, james was in the air force. lynn, a nursery school teacher. they would begin a life together. have children, grandchildren, and renew their vows along the way. and just recently, for their 50 wedding anniversary, james got an idea. now 272 72, the love still

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moment. that you see on the map. it will get muchthis is live do. the green all over the area. it is raining in those places. people getting prepared for the lots of rain. we'll get plenty of it. good afternoon thanks for joining us. >> let's look at the camera. you can see the rain is already starting to come down. some of the drops on the lens. >> all check out the camera in san francisco. the bridge in the >> the windshield wipers going there. >> in the north bay. in@east bay and in san francisco. >> we begin with spencer and a look at the forecast. >> it is raining lightly across the bay area already. it will get heavier and windier as the storm continues to move

you can see all the relatively light shades of green indicating light rainfall. in many locations mu hundredths of an 22 miles perrou hdsin w san francisco and mountain view 36 miles per hour gusts. half-moon bay. those numbers will increase. the storm ranks 3 on the impact scale. with us tonight and early morning. producing heavy rain, urban one inches. wnggi likeldiny. a high wind warningn o if the b. a wind advisory. and our flash flood watch which is in effect for t from 7:00 t to 12 noon